Your First Views in Tableau Online

Waseem Ali

So you have been given access to Tableau Online t work– your IT / Data Department have told you, ‘You have self-serve data analysis capabilities’, they have published ‘verified’ data sources on Tableau Online for you to play with. – So – how do you get started. This is a simple post to walk you through the process of connecting to a Tableau Data Source that has been published online (using Tableau Online itself) and then creating some analysis (i.e. self-serving!)

Firstly log onto Tableau Online

Depending on what you homepage is set to, on your main Project Page, you should see the following:

Click on “Data Sources” – here you will find all the Data Sources that have been published to Tableau Online (note at this point, only people that have Tableau Desktop can do this)